Quotes About Progress

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

Uniformity and Evolution are one.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.